Photographer & Author

Dr. Roberta Bondar uses digital medium and DSLR cameras to explore and image the powerful forces and intricacies of Earth’s natural world.

Roberta Bondar's photographic explorations have taken her to some of the most extreme climatic and geological locations on Earth. She has captured the beauty, solitude and dramatic landscape of the American Southwest, the High Arctic and the Sahara Desert with its ancient Roman ruins.

Roberta Bondar's photographic proficiency adds a multi-dimension to her expression of experiences. As an Honors student in Professional Nature Photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California, she was deeply influenced by the poetic tableaus of renowned American photographer Ansel Adams.

Having seen Earth from the unique perspective of space, her Earth centered pictorial images celebrate the beauty of our natural environment at an intimate level.

Her photographic works may be found in private, corporate and institutional collections.

List of Solo Exhibitions

List of Group Exhibitions

Photography

Below find a sampling of Dr. Bondar's photos. Choose a filter to see photos in each series.

  • All
  • Tree Canopies
  • The Arctic
  • Aerial Landscapes
  • Water's Edge
  • Desert
  • Masai Mara, Kenya
  • AMASS

Books

The Arid Edge of Earth

In conjunction with major international exhibitions, Roberta's latest photographic essay uncovers the Arctic North, the shadows of the Grand Canyon, the burning sands of the Sahara, and many more extreme environments accompanied by her commentary on capturing the Earth.

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$29.95 CAD


  • 25 black and white, 48 full-colour photographs
  • Softcover 10.5" x 4.5" (26.7 cm x 19.0 cm)
  • 88 pages, printed on acid free paper
  • Introduction by Dr. Roberta Bondar
  • Published in Canada by Roberta Bondar Astronaut Enterprise, 2006
  • ISBN 0-9780508-0-0

Landscape of Dreams

An elegant love letter to Canada, combining the images of Roberta Bondar and text by some of the country's most distinguished artists, writers, entertainers, thinkers and personalities.


  • 50 full-colour photographs
  • Softcover 9" x 9" (25.4 cm x 27.9 cm)
  • 112 pages, printed on acid free paper
  • Introduction by Dr. Roberta Bondar
  • Published in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre, 2006
  • (Hard cover edition published 2002 sold out)
  • ISBN 978-1-55365-182-6

Passionate Vision: Discovering Canada's National Parks

Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. More than 100 photographs, including six stunning images from space, both of familiar places and little-known wilderness, are interwoven with words about the land by explorers, poets, ecologists and naturalists such as Rachel Carson, Ansel Adams and Wade Davis.


  • 100 full-colour photographs
  • Softcover 10" x 11" (25.4 cm x 27.9 cm)
  • 176 pages, printed on acid free paper
  • Introduction by Dr. Roberta Bondar
  • Published in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre, 2008
  • (Hard cover edition published 2000 sold out)
  • ISBN 978-1-55365-379-0

Touching the Earth

Touching the Earth is an amazing visual and written testament to the beauty and variety of our planet. Dr. Bondar contrasts her two views of "home", with photographs from space and her early photography from its surface, accompanied by text of her journey and reflections on our environment.


  • 95 colour, 2 black and white plates
  • Softcover 9" x 9.3", (22.8 cm x 23.6 cm)
  • 144 pages on recycled, acid free paper
  • Introduction by Dr. Roberta Bondar
  • Published in Canada by Key Porter Books
  • ISBN 1-55013-657-7